UCLA DMA Winter 2019 Events

The Department of Design Media Arts (DMA) at UCLA cultivates a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to artistic practice that focuses experimentation and innovative thinking. We synthesize practice, history, and theory and hybridize technologies, discourses, and audiences.

DMA is home to the UCLA Game Lab, an experimental research and development lab that fosters the production of computer games and game-related research; the Art|Sci Center, dedicated to pursuing and promoting the evolving “Third Culture” by facilitating collaborations between (media) arts and (bio/nano) sciences; the CounterForce Lab a research and fieldwork studio executing projects around the impacts of anthropogenic climate change; and the UCLA Arts Conditional Studio, a research group focused on software’s impact on art, politics, and everyday life. The department also boasts strong ties to the UCLA Digital Humanities program which aims to interpret the cultural and social impact of new media and information technologies and apply these technologies to answer cultural, social, historical, and philological questions.


UCLA DMA 2018-2019 Lecture Series

Juliana Huxtable
October 23, 2018

Andrea Polli
November 13, 2018

Lars Müller, Regents’ Professor
January 22, 2019

Nathalie Lawhead
February 5, 2019

Astra Tylor, Regents’ Lecturer
February 19, 2019

Gelare Khoshgozaran, Arts Council Visiting Professor
April 9, 2019


First year MFA solo exhibitions
Clara Leivas: February 5, 2019
Zeynep Abes: February 12, 2019
Miles Peyton: February 19, 2019
Hirad Sab: February 26, 2019
Erin Cooney: March 5, 2019
Graham Akins: March 12, 2019
Ben Lerchin: April 2, 2019
Blaine O’neill: April 9, 2019
Leming Zhong: April 16, 2019
Dalena Tran: April 23, 2019
Berfin Ataman: April 30, 2019


Now accepting applications for MFA in Media Arts
The MFA Program in Media Arts offers a rigorous environment for the sustained exploration of contemporary arts practice in the context of media and technology. Through technical and critical seminars, group critiques, and individual tutorials with faculty, each student is challenged to question conventional ideas about art, technology, and new media while developing a critical awareness about their own work.

Located within UCLA’s prestigious School of the Arts and Architecture, students have the opportunity to work closely with the the department’s world-renowned faculty Rebecca Allen, Steve Anderson, Johanna Drucker, Isla Hansen, Erkki Huhtamo, Willem Henri Lucas, Peter Lunenfeld, Lauren McCarthy, Chandler McWilliams, Rebeca Méndez, Christian Moeller, Casey Reas, Ramesh Srinivasan, Jennifer Steinkamp, Eddo Stern, and Victoria Vesna while taking full advantage of the resources UCLA provides as a leading research university.

Artists from diverse backgrounds in visual and performing arts, architecture, science, and engineering are encouraged to apply.

The fall 2019 application deadline for the MFA in Media Arts is January 15, 2019. Application and additional information available at mfa.dma.ucla.edu.